Derek & The Dominos - Complete Studio Sessions [5 CD]

 

Derek & The Dominos
Complete Studio Sessions for Layla & unreleased 2nd album

Criteria Studios - Miami, Florida

Little Walter - The Complete Chess Masters (1950-1967) [5 CD, 2009]

 

Little Walter, born Marion Walter Jacobs (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968), was an American blues harmonica player whose revolutionary approach to his instrument has earned him comparisons to Charlie Parker and Jimi Hendrix for innovation and impact on succeeding generations. His virtuosity and musical innovations fundamentally altered many listeners' expectations of what was possible on blues harmonica. Little Walter's body of work earned him a spot in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 making him the only artist ever to be inducted specifically for his work as a harmonica player.

This boxset brings 126 songs on 5 CDs; all available Checker/Chess recordings, including many alternate takes.


Disc:1

1. Evans Shuffle
2. Juke
3. Juke (Alternate Take)
4. Can't Hold out Much Longer
5. Can't Hold out Much Longer (Alternate Take)
6. Blue Midnight (Alternate Take)
7. Blue Midnight
8. Boogie
9. Mean Old World
10. Sad Hours
11. Fast Boogie
12. Fast Boogie (Alternate 1)
13. Fast Boogie (Alternate 2)
14. Fast Boogie (Alternate 3)
15. Don't Need No Horse
16. Driftin'
17. Driftin' (Alternate Take)
18. Don't Have to Hunt No More
19. Crazy Legs
20. Tonight with a Fool
21. Off the Wall (Alternate Take)
22. Off the Wall
23. Tell Me Mama
24. Quarter to Twelve
25. That's It

Disc:2

1. Blues with a Feeling (Alternate Take)
2. Blues with a Feeling
3. Last Boogie
4. Too Late
5. Fast Boogie
6. Lights Out
7. Fast Large One
8. You're So Fine
9. My Kind of Baby
10. Come Back Baby
11. Rocker
12. I Love You So (Oh Baby)
13. Oh Baby
14. I Got to Find My Baby (Alternate Take)
15. I Got to Find My Baby
16. Big Leg Mama
17. Mercy Babe (My Babe)
18. Last Night (First Version)
19. You'd Better Watch Yourself
20. Blue Light
21. Instrumental
22. Last Night
23. Mellow Down Easy
24. My Babe
25. My Babe (Overdubbed Version)

Disc:3

1. Thunderbird
2. Roller Coaster
3. I Got to Go
4. Hate to See You Go (Extended)
5. Little Girl
6. Crazy for My Baby
7. Can't Stop Loving You
8. One More Chance with You
9. Who
10. Boom, Boom out Go the Lights
11. It Ain't Right
12. Flying Saucer
13. It's Too Late Brother
14. Teenage Beat
15. Take Me Back
16. Just a Feeling
17. Nobody But You
18. Temperature (Version 1)
19. Shake Dancer
20. Everybody Needs Somebody
21. Temperature (Alternate 1)
22. Temperature (Alternate 2)
23. Temperature (Take 30)
24. Temperature (Take 35-38)
25. Temperature (Version 2)
26. Ah'w Baby (Alternate Take)

Disc:4

1. Ah'w Baby
2. I've Had My Fun (Alternate Take)
3. I've Had My Fun (Alternate 2)
4. I've Had My Fun
5. Toddle
6. Confessin' the Blues
7. Key to the Highway
8. Rock Bottom
9. Rock Bottom
10. Walkin' On (Rock Bottom Alternate)
11. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) (Take 5)
12. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby) (Alternate Take)
13. You Gonna Be Sorry (Someday Baby)
14. One of These Mornings
15. Baby
16. My Baby Is Sweeter (Alternate Take)
17. My Baby Is Sweeter
18. Crazy Mixed Up World (Alternate Take)
19. Crazy Mixed Up World
20. Worried Life (Alternate Take)
21. Worried Life
22. Everthing's Gonna Be Alright (Take 1)
23. Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Alternate 1)
24. Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Alternate 2)
25. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
26. Mean Old Frisco (Alternate Take)
27. Mean Old Frisco


Disc:5

1. Back Track
2. One of These Mornings
3. Blue and Lonesome (Alternate Take)
4. Blue and Lonesome
5. Me and Piney Brown
6. Break It Up
7. Going Down Slow
8. You're Sweet
9. I Don't Play
10. As Long as I Have You
11. You Don't Know
12. Just Your Fool
13. Up the Line
14. I'm a Business Man
15. Dead Presidents
16. Southern Feeling
17. Back in the Alley
18. I Feel So Bad (Take 1)
19. I Feel So Bad (Take 2)
20. Chicken Shack
21. Feel So Bad
22. Make It Alright
23. Juke

Suzi Quatro - The Devil In Me [2021]

 Making a seismic impact in the 70s on this side of the Atlantic by combining the slam-dunk chart-toppers Can The Can and Devil Gate Drive – as well as Top 10 smashes 48 Crash, The Wild One and If You Can’t Give Me Love – with the era-defining imagery of low-slung bass guitar and leather catsuits, Suzi Quatro proved that rock’n’roll wasn’t just the preserve of excitable lads and their dads, as she also inspired multiple teens of her own gender. 

And yet, for all that, if her latest album The Devil In Me proves anything it’s that you can take Suzi Quatro out of Detroit, but you’ll never take Detroit out of Suzi. With a legacy that includes the MC5, The Stooges, the Amboy Dukes and others, the Motor City has always rocked harder and louder than most. 

VA - City Of Dreams: A Collection Of New Orleans Music [4 CD, 2007]

 

The tuneful musical gumbo from national treasure New Orleans is always a splendid gift. City of Dreams is four CDs of funk, blues, piano boogie, and second-line parade inspired songs. Focusing on the R&B side of the Big Easy’s musical heritage, this set is all about booty shaking. For the jazz side of things head on over to the ultra special Made in New Orleans. This literally a one-of-a-kind gift that will appeal to all jazz fans as well as all those smart folks who treasure the spirit and culture of New Orleans.



Disc 1 - Big Easy Blues

1. Al Johnson – Carnival Time (02:39)
2. Marcia Ball, Irma Thomas & Tracy Nelson – Sing It (04:18)
3. Chuck Carbo – Drawers Trouble (04:27)
4. Johnny Adams – Just Because (02:52)
5. Irma Thomas – Don't Mess With My Man (02:19)
6. Eddie Bo – Check Mr. Popeye (02:12)
7. Joe Jones – You Talk Too Much (02:29)
8. Marcia Ball – Big Shot (03:55)
9. Davell Crawford – I Bowed On My Knees (03:53)
10. Ramsey McLean & Charmaine Neville – Drink Jax Beer (03:06)
11. Ruth Brown – Go On Fool (04:30)
12. Clarence Brown – Dollar Got The Blues (04:37)

Disc 2 - Street Beat

1. Rebirth Brass Band – Feel Like Funkin' It Up (05:07)
2. Monk Boudreaux & Golden Eagles – Sew, Sew, Sew (04:18)
3. Professor Longhair – Cuttin' Out (02:37)
4. Bo Dollis, Monk Boudreaux & ReBirth Brass Band – Shoo-Fly (06:11)
5. New Orleans Night Crawlers – Royal Flush (05:37)
6. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – It Ain't What You Think (04:23)
7. All That – T. Chapman (07:33)
8. Dejan's Young Olympia Brass Band – No It Ain't My Fault (03:58)
9. Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias – Golden Crown (03:54)
10. The Chosen Few Brass Band – St. Louis Blues (04:58)
11. Alvin Tyler – If My Shoes Hold Out (04:32)
12. Rebirth Brass Band – Just A Little While To Stay Here (06:17)

Disc 3 - Funk New Orleans

1. Walter "Wolfman" Washington – You Can Stay But The Noise Must Go (06:16)
2. Theryl "Houseman De'Clouet" – Ain't No Yachts In The Ghetto (04:49)
3. George Porter, Jr. – Rough Spots (04:08)
4. All That – Flow On (04:05)
5. The Ed Frank Quintet – A Corn For Crip (04:31)
6. Bo Dollis, Willie Tee & Dr. John – Keeper Of The Crown (04:47)
7. Johnny Adams – Body And Fender Man (05:30)
8. The New Orleans Saxophone Ensemble – Gemini Rising (04:25)
9. Irma Thomas – Sweet Touch Of Love (03:42)
10. Solomon Burke – Here We Go Again (06:46)
11. Walter "Wolfman" Washington – Funk Yard (06:46)
12. Davell Crawford – House That Jack Built (07:01)

Disc 4 - Ivory Emperors

1. Eddie Bo – Hard Times (02:34)
2. James Booker – Classified (03:14)
3. Professor Longhair – Every Day, Every Night (02:19)
6. David Torkanowsky – Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (06:15)
7. Tuts Washington – Tee Nah Nah (01:55)
8. Willie Tee – On The Q-Tee (02:02)
7. Davell Crawford – Gumbo Piano (03:31)
8. James Booker – All By Myself (03:29)
9. Art Neville – My Children (03:14)
10. Champion Jack Dupree – I Don't Know (04:49)
11. Professor Longhair – Go To The Mardi Gras (02:47)
12. Tuts Washington – Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans (02:53)

The Texas International Pop Festival 1969 [13 CD]

 

The Texas International Pop Festival was a music festival held at Lewisville, Texas, on Labor Day weekend, August 30-September 1, 1969. It occurred two weeks after Woodstock. The site for the event was the newly-opened Dallas International Motor Speedway, located on the east side of Interstate Highway 35E, across from the Round Grove Road intersection.

The festival was the brainchild of Angus G. Wynne III, son of Angus G. Wynne, the founder of the Six Flags Over Texas Amusement Park. Wynne was a concert promoter who had attended the Atlanta International Pop Festival on the July Fourth weekend. He decided to put a festival on near Dallas, and joined with the Atlanta festival's main organizer, Alex Cooley, forming the company Interpop Superfest.

Artists performing at the festival were: Led Zeppelin, B.B. King, Canned Heat, Chicago (then called Chicago Transit Authority), Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Freddie King, Grand Funk Railroad, Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band, James Cotton, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Nazz, Rotary Connection, Sam and Dave, Santana, Shiva's Headband, Sly and the Family Stone, Space Opera, Spirit, Sweetwater, Ten Years After and Tony Joe White.